With 88 minutes showing on the clock, Barcelona needed three goals to seal progression, before Neymar scored a free-kick and a penalty and Sergi Roberto knocked in the Brazilian’s cross deep into stoppage time.

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And Pique admitted it will go down as one of the most special nights in the club’s history — insisting it was even better than their last-gasp equaliser against Chelsea in 2009.

He said: “I remember [Andres] Iniesta’s goal at Stamford Bridge, but what happened here has no comparison.

“One thing is to score a goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time, another is to score three in seven minutes.